Dzifa Attivor passes on
A former Minister of Transport, Dzifa Attivor, has passed on at age 65. Madam Attivor, who has been sick for sometime died on Monday, November 15, 2021 at the University of Ghana Medical Centre.
This was confirmed to the media by her aide, and also corroborated by the Deputy Volta Regional Organizer of the NDC, Lord-Chester Ati in a Facebook post.
Born on 22nd February 1956, Dzifa Attivor is known as a politician and a businesswoman. She was Minister for Transport in Ghana until her resignation in December 2015 due to a controversial bus re-branding contract.
She was appointed in February 2013 by President John Mahama after the Ghanaian general election in December 2012.
Dzifa Aku Attivor started her basic education at the Evangelical Presbyterian Primary School at Abutia-Teti between 1960 and 1970. Her secondary education was at the Kpedze Secondary School and the Peki Secondary School, both in the Volta Region of Ghana between 1970 and 1975.
She then trained at the Government Secretarial School qualifying as a Stenographer Secretary in 1981. She later obtained a Secretarial Silver Diploma from Pitman College, UK.
Her graduate qualifications are from the American Century University where she obtained a Bachelor of science degree in Administration in 2007 and a master’s degree in Human Resource Management in 2012.
Career
Attivor worked with the Bank of Ghana from 1976 to 2003 as a research clerk and then as a Personal Assistant to three successive Deputy Governors. She also became the Personal Assistant to the head of treasury in charge of all general office administrative work in the same bank.
Attivor moved into private business. She also set up a Non-Governmental Organization named ‘Dedefund’, which is dedicated to the support of brilliant but needy children, the course of women and the youth. The NGO also cares for the 120 cured lepers at Schohaven Village located in Ho in the Volta Region.
Politics
Attivor is a member of the National Democratic Congress. She contested the Ho West constituency primaries of the NDC in 2008 but lost to Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah who subsequently won the elections in December 2008.
She was however appointed Deputy Minister for Transport by President John Atta Mills from 2009 to January 2012. After John Dramani Mahama became President, she was appointed the substantive Minister for Transport.
Attivor made her intentions known publicly and launched her campaign to become the Volta Regional Chairperson of the National Democratic Congress in August 2018.
She was defeated in the elections in September 2018 after garnering 374 votes against the winner John Kudzo Gyapong, the incumbent who had 491 votes.
